I wish this was true, but we can see that it is not. Take a look at successful programming languages. Languages like PHP, Javascript are hugely successful, des

I wish this was true, but we can see that it is not. Take a look at successful programming languages. Languages like PHP, Javascript are hugely successful, despite universally acknowledged to be terribly designed. In open source world, despite having very poor reputation for code quality, projects like Wordpress, MySQL are more successful over supposedly well written projects like Postgres. One exception to the rule is Perl, which lost out to Python as the de facto scripting language over time ( Python is supposedly better designed that Perl 5 ). But these are exceptions, not the rule.